Error when user selects opt-in checkbox

Just submitted to it myself, to see if it goes through.

One question I have is if you have our “Bypass CRON” setting toggled on or not, I know we had recent issues with others around cron jobs not working, and I’m wondering if disabling that would help. It’d set things to send right away instead of on a brief delay.

I put a checkmark next to ‘Bypass Constant Contact cron scheduling’ in the settings and then tested the form again. This time I got an error stating the following:
Error Thrown
Attempt to assign property “note” on null.

Hmm, definitely progress, but not all the way there yet. I’ve checked internally and that one is looking like a PHP 8 compatibility issue that we’ll need to confirm and look into resolving.

What version of Constant Contact Forms plugin are you on? The 1.14.0?

Checked a bit more closely at our internal notes and saw that that error is most likely to happen when the plugin is trying to update a contact, not when adding a new contact. So in this case, you potentially re-used an email address that’s already in the associated list.

Still something we should see about addressing overall, but also a slight edge case with the updating vs adding new.

Yes, the issue was that the email address was already set as a contact in the Constant Contact account. Will this issue be fixed soon?

We’re still discussing internally how we want to handle this edge case, since we are also hopefully getting version 2.0.0 released which is going to be a really big upgrade including this area that we’re discussing here.

A lot of changes under the hood, and this error specifically would be ultimately removed.

I don’t believe it’s going to affect you that much unless you have people repeatedly trying to sign up with the same email address.